The metals platinum, iridium, rhodium, osmium and palladium do not fuse.
But Stesichorus apparently knew nothing of a Trojan settlement in Latium; Siris in Oenotria seems to have been fixed on by him as the place of refuge for the Palladium and the Penates of Troy.
The fatal error is committed under the conviction that the protection enjoyed under the old Palladium would be renewed under this new symbol.
It was not long before his sagacity detected the secret of our amazing political success, and he determined to lose no time in studying the palladium he had discovered.
For a while, the Provincials defended their national palladium with clamors and arms and new visions condemned to death and hell the profane sceptics who presumed to scrutinize the truth and merit of the discovery.
The philosophy of Descartes established this principle, which is the palladium of science; and thus the third preliminary condition was fulfilled.
The shrine of Erkenwald remained from this time till the Reformation the palladium of the city.
It was supposed to have been the palladium of Caer Lud, "and the sygte ther of the Saxons aferde.
That the idea of a palladium was known in Britain is proved by the case of the sacred stone of Scone--the Coronation Stone.
Here we get a clue to its name London Stone, and the idea accounts for its having been to some extent the palladium of the city, of which it seems to have been regarded as the sacred and immovable foundation stone.
He was made a war-chief, and ever afterward the spear which he had used was regarded as the palladium of the Blackfoot Indians.
Graham showed that when heated to a red heat and cooled in an atmosphere of hydrogen, palladium retains as much as 600 volumes of hydrogen.
The property of palladium of absorbing hydrogen, and of increasing in volume in so doing, may be easily demonstrated by taking a sheet of palladium varnished on one side, and using it as a cathode.
Palladium and some other metals are capable of absorbing large volumes of hydrogen (especially when the metal is used as a cathode in a water electrolysis apparatus).
Hoitsema being of the opinion that the occlusion of hydrogen by palladium is a process of continuous absorption.
In New England, these institutions have long since been founded at the public cost, and watched over with paternal care, as the ark of our covenant, the palladium of our nation.
In palladium this septet appears as the upper sphere in every ovoid of the upper ring.
Diomedes and Ulysses carried off the palladium from the city of Troy, the safety of which was contingent on its possession (see “Troy”).
In company with Diomedes he slew the horses of Rhesus, and also carried off the Palladium (q.
Minerva; but the Palladium was an ancient image of the goddess at Troy, on the preservation of which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
I do not know what a palladium is, having never seen a palladium, but it is a good thing no doubt at any rate.
Exposed to the action of chlorine, bromine, or iodine, the hydrogen leaves the palladium and enters into direct union with these elements.
It was the conservatory of the Palladiumand holy fire.
The Greeks learned of a prophecy which declared that Troy could never be taken while the palladium remained within its walls, and Ulysses and Diomedes were entrusted with the task of stealing it.
But Calchas bade them rear it high With timbers mounting to the sky, That none might drag within the gate This new Palladium of your state.
